Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?

[Nazi vegeta]

It seems Im one of the few people who played the megadrive/genesis verzion of batman89.
Whenever some faggot youtuber does a batman retrospective, theyll always mention the nes verzion only, because thats the one everybody played. Thats probably thanks to nintendo having a 1 year exclusive deal, so the md version came out in 1990 or 91, when the hype for the movie was gone.

A really obscure game I used to like as a kid, was this arcade game called xaind sleena.
It's pretty much turrican3, with spaceshooting sections.
For an 1986 game, it was kinda ambitious, even though I played it in '90, I think.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLktzzwAkc


A special mention goes to overblood, not because I played it, but I watched gamingbrit video on it and I think it's hilariously bad, but in a good way. Also, it has the og barry burton voice as the main character (at least sounds like him)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I58kqTczBjs

 

[Chaos Theorist]

It seems Im one of the few people who played the megadrive/genesis verzion of batman89.
Whenever some faggot youtuber does a batman retrospective, theyll always mention the nes verzion only, because thats the one everybody played. Thats probably thanks to nintendo having a 1 year exclusive deal, so the md version came out in 1990 or 91, when the hype for the movie was gone.

Its more likely that Nintendo pressured Sunsoft into an exclusivity deal to release the game on its platform before anyone elses

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Pac-Man 2 : The New Adventures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsB3vPR_Sg

Most people just sort of shrug it off as being licensed garbage (which it totally looks like) but it's unironically one of the best games I've ever played and really doesn't fall into a genre.

PM2 gives you the experience of being the conscience of a hyperactive and possibly emotionally disturbed teenager. Your controls consist of a slingshot which you can use to fire tiny rocks at things in the world to interact with them and a button you can hit to signal that Pac should look in a specific direction. Other than that, you have no direct control over what happens in the game - Stages start with Pac being ejected from his house to perform some errand or other such as getting m.ilk for the baby or finding a stolen guitar and he just sort of does his thing automatically. It's your job to keep him on-task and make sure he actually accomplishes these goals instead of wandering off and getting high or throwing rocks at a hornet's nest.

What makes the game really special though is Pac's violent mood swings. Sometimes he's happy and helpful, other times he's a completely sociopathic version of Master Shake who doesn't listen to you, and sometimes he'll do something like break into the town chemistry lab and huff research chemicals and become completely unpredictable. Every object in the game has different interactions for every mood, and almost everything can kill Pac in some way or other if he can find a way to hurt himself with it. Death is a non-penalty and never sets you back more than a few seconds, so the goal of the game is less about completing Pac's errands and more about finding increasingly weird and hilarious ways to get him killed.

It's a really, really hard game to describe and I highly suggest just giving it a shot in an emulator if you like slapstick. It's only about a 2-hour time commitment to finish, maybe another hour if you do everything.

 

[sasazuka]

It seems Im one of the few people who played the megadrive/genesis verzion of batman89.
Whenever some faggot youtuber does a batman retrospective, theyll always mention the nes verzion only, because thats the one everybody played. Thats probably thanks to nintendo having a 1 year exclusive deal, so the md version came out in 1990 or 91, when the hype for the movie was gone.

I rented it once back in the day. I liked that it had the actual Danny Elfman Batman theme from the movie (unlike the Genesis version of Batman Returns) and I liked some of the graphical details like the parade balloons but I think I found it too short.

Was Batman one of those "infinite continues" games where each continue lets you start playing exactly at the point you died? Maybe it's one of those Genesis games, like Aladdin, where I abused the infinite continues just to breeze through the first damn time I played it instead of trying to "git gud" at it

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I started playing Lisa recently. I don't know if it counts as obscure, but it certainly deserves way more love. The game's dark comedy is some of the sharpest I have ever seen in a video game, and it feels like a more adult Mother. And the story is drenched in a raw unflinching darkness that I haven't seen since arguably Spec Ops: The Line.

If I had to complain about anything, it's the slow walking speed of the main character, and the game can be brutally difficult at times. But outside of that, it's a legitimately funny and tragic game that has been overlooked.

 

[Nazi vegeta]

I rented it once back in the day. I liked that it had the actual Danny Elfman Batman theme from the movie (unlike the Genesis version of Batman Returns) and I liked some of the graphical details like the parade balloons but I think I found it too short.

Was Batman one of those "infinite continues" games where each continue lets you start playing exactly at the point you died? Maybe it's one of those Genesis games, like Aladdin, where I abused the infinite continues just to breeze through the first damn time I played it instead of trying to "git gud" at it

it had a finite number of continues and you could set your life count up to 7 in the options.

 

[sasazuka]

Was I wrong about the Genesis Batman using the main Batman theme by Danny Elfman? I'm watching playthrough videos and I don't hear it.

Or is it just the Mandela Effect? No, I think I was just mistaken and I didn't slide here from a universe where the Batman Megadrive/Genesis game had the Danny Elfman theme music instead of the kinda-sorta Elfman-esque music during the title screen.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Blasto, a mediocre PlayStation third person shooter that was the one of the last voice acting roles Phil Hartman had before he was murdered.

 

[Nazi vegeta]

Was I wrong about the Genesis Batman using the main Batman theme by Danny Elfman? I'm watching playthrough videos and I don't hear it.

Or is it just the Mandela Effect? No, I think I was just mistaken and I didn't slide here from a universe where the Batman Megadrive/Genesis game had the Danny Elfman theme music instead of the kinda-sorta Elfman-esque music during the title screen.

Yeah you were wrong. I played the shit out of this game and it never had the danny elfman theme.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time.
Basically going back in time on the Titanic to prevent WW1.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time.
Basically going back in time on the Titanic to prevent WW1.

I had that back in the day. I didn't do very well at it. If I remember rightly, succeeding at anything other than all the missions resulted in the bad guys winning.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I had that back in the day. I didn't do very well at it. If I remember rightly, succeeding at anything other than all the missions resulted in the bad guys winning.

I'm currently playing it. It's online now:
https://www.danielhobi.ch/taoot/
I've never been able to get the painting before Zeitel's men take it.

 

[OhGoy]

- "Freedom Force": Top-down super hero game. (GOG version is great, Steam version is buggy as hell)
- "Impossible Creatures": RTS where you can combine multiple parts of two animals into one. (i.e scorpion+tiger, like on the box art)
- "Black & White": You play as a god who controls a 10 story tall monster beast that does your bidding. (by Lionhead Studios, not the Pokemon game)
- "X-Men Origins: Wolverine": A character action game with Wolverine. (a movie game that's actually good)
- "Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds": Star Wars reskin of Age of Empires.
- "Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow": Symphony of the Night, but improved. (not really obscure, just brutally overshadowed by Symphony of the Night)
- "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream": A point and click adventure game based on the story of the same name (this game made me physically uncomfortable, and I'm a cold motherfucker)

All of these are pretty happy, go-lucky games, with the exception being I Have No Mouth. It's up there with Silent Hill with how fucked up it can get, and is arguably even worse. When I think about certain scenes from this game, I get literal chills down my spine. Not even kidding.

Spoiler: An example of what can happen in the game

To get a certain key in the game, you have to pull a switch to kill a room full of animals. There's something interesting about the key, though. It doesn't work on anything. And to rub it in even more, it's completely optional.

Spoiler: Cut content

Edit: muh grammar

 

[Ginger Piglet]

- "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream": A point and click adventure game based on the story of the same name (this game made me physically uncomfortable, and I'm a cold motherfucker)

That isn't even the most fucked up bits of IHNMAIMS:

- During Nimdok's segment, you can remove a forsaken Untermensch child's spinal cord for teh evulz. And it doesn't stop you getting the best ending; I believe you can still get enough Spiritual Barometer points to get the totem of compassion.
- Benny eating a child was removed.
- Yes, Ellen can get raped if you take too long to fight back against the yellow man. On camera too.
- Gorrister's heart and all that.
- AM as a mere concept. "God as Daddy the Deranged" doesn't even begin to cover it.

 

[GeneralSinner666]

Many of these are extremely overused examples, but:

Um Jammer Lammy (Parappa The Rapper but easily three times better, weirder and funnier, and also with an incredibly sexy trans-stoner guitar girl voiced by Sara Ramirez playing the protag role)

Xenogears (the type of ridiculously intricately woven storyline that FFVII, Chrono Trigger, FFVI and Xenoblade WISH they had, and in Xenoblade's case, without all of those stupid annoying memes)

Super Metroid Eris (now this right here is how you make Metroid scary and unsettling)

Radiation's Earthbound Halloween Hack (granted, all of those fucking heavy-metal-tards claiming it to be a better game than Toby Fox's official work, Undertale, seriously need to fucking stop, but for what it is...well, it might be a complete unbalanced and broken mess gameplay-wise, one that's horribly weighted against the player outside of the stupidly easy boss battles, in fact, but trust me, the Dr. Andonuts Magicant segment alone is easily worth struggling your way through it just for)

Super Metroid Z-Factor (the one Super Metroid romhack that I can absolutely say for certain is a massive game-design improvement upon the original game in almost every way possible)

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (God, do I fucking love Toko Fukawa now)

WipEout series (had potential to easily outsell the F-Zero series with just its aesthetics alone)

Metroid: Samus Returns (granted, I would've enjoyed this infinitely more if Another Metroid 2 Remake had also been packaged into it, but come on, seriously, is it really that big of a fucking deal?)

Chrono Cross (unfortunately have only played the first few minutes of it, however)

Axiom Verge (now this is a game that actually does almost rival Undertale's Pacifist Run in terms of quality; not as good as AM2R or some of the Super Metroid hacks but still great in its own right)

Psychonauts (ridiculously overrated and easy, yes, but the rating for it came almost entirely from critics; this game unfortunately sold so woefully poorly that I'd have to say it qualifies)

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (easily a better game than Sands of Time)

 

[Pepito The Cat]

Around mid 90s I was very into point and click adventures and played a few rare ones.

Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender is an old DOS science fiction point & click adventure game developed by MicroProse Software in 1992 from an original idea by Kenn Nishiuye - Frank Frazier. Rex Nebular and the cosmic gender-bender can be enjoyed in single player mode from a side view perspective.

I'm actually surprised how many people recognized this game on /vr/. It's a very good one if you wanna give it a try bu beware: It's difficult and frustrating af. A guide is a must. A guy crashes on a planet where SJW- I mean, Women triumphed over men on a gender war. Using your wit and a shit ton of trial and error, you'll have to cross over the Women citadel, the jungle and the ruins of the Man-city to get your ass out of the planet. Get ready for a lot of gender and troon humor with crap that in no way would be allowed by today's sensitivities.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

It's pretty much turrican3, with spaceshooting sections.

So Turrican 2, then.

Dammit, I now have an urge to listen to "Concerto for Laser and Enemies" from the soundtrack to that.

Around mid 90s I was very into point and click adventures and played a few rare ones.

I'm actually surprised how many people recognized this game on /vr/. It's a very good one if you wanna give it a try bu beware: It's difficult and frustrating af. A guide is a must. A guy crashes on a planet where SJW- I mean, Women triumphed over men on a gender war. Using your wit and a shit ton of trial and error, you'll have to cross over the Women citadel, the jungle and the ruins of the Man-city to get your ass out of the planet. Get ready for a lot of gender and troon humor with crap that in no way would be allowed by today's sensitivities.

Oh, tell me about it. Rex Nebular was skating close to the line even in 1993. I mean, leaving aside the fact that Rex's female form looks like Roberta Williams with a mullet, and the many take thats aimed at Sierra in general, wasn't there a bit where you had to avoid getting eaten by a mega fatty who would leap on you from a tree if you tried to go past it by setting a trap with twinkies? Not to mention the car that won't let you drive it until you scan your genitals.

If you liked Rex Nebular then maybe try Dragonsphere, from the same dev team. It's a sort of high fantasy adventure which succeeds at being really quite grimdark and having some genuinely weird settings and locales that you go to, such as the land where everything is a shapeshifter, and the Soptus Ecliptus desert, who despite their Arabian Nights trappings with their grey skin and big black eyes and mention of having come from another world are impliedly the descendents of "grey" type aliens stranded on the planet. It's free on GOG, I believe.

 

[Pepito The Cat]

Rex's female form looks like Roberta Williams with a mullet

I LOL'D way too much

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I LOL'D way too much

Roberta at that time:

 

[Pepito The Cat]

Roberta at that time:

I don't know why I didn't figure the connection at the time but it's clearly based on her.